La Posada Hotel

In 1930, a new hotel emerged in Winslow, Arizona called La Posada, which means “the inn” in Spanish.  Fred Harvey built the hotel to serve people getting off at the Santa Fe Railway station there.  Harvey was known for making railway travel to the Western United States more comfortable by building restaurants and hotels along…

Lenin Museum in Tampere, Finland

One of the strangest museums that I have ever visited was the Lenin Museum in Tampere, Finland.  As its name implies, it is dedicated to the first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin.  It is currently the only museum outside of Russia dedicated to him. Finland has a museum focused on Lenin, because the…